Committee Chairman
34. Blake Snell
Blake Snell won the American League Cy Young Award in 2018 while playing for the Tampa Bay Rays. The San Diego Padres acquired him before the 2021 season, hoping to see the same level of performance from the left-handed pitcher. However, Snell's first year with the Padres was not as impressive as expected, as he had an ERA over four, but he did manage to strike out 170 batters.
In 2022, he showed some improvement (8-10, 3.38 ERA, 171 SO), but still fell short of expectations. However, Snell bounced back in 2023 and joined the exclusive club of pitchers who have won the Cy Young Award in both leagues. He won 14 games with 9 losses, led the NL in ERA (2.25), ERA+ (182), and H/9 (5.8), and set a personal best in strikeouts (234). Despite his outstanding performance, the Padres failed to make the playoffs, leaving a bittersweet taste.
The Padres would make the playoffs in 2024, but did so without Snell, who left the club for their NL West rival, San Francisco in free agency.
Our All-Time Top 50 Pittsburgh Pirates Have been revised to reflect the 2023 Season
Yes, we know that this is taking a while!
As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the top 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out, and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity. As such, we are very happy to present our post-2023 revision of our top 50 Pittsburgh Pirates.
As for all of our top 50 players in baseball, we look at the following:
1. Advanced Statistics.
2. Traditional statistics and how they finished in Major League Baseball.
3. Playoff accomplishments.
4. Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles that are not reflected in a stat sheet.
Last year, the Pirates got off to a good start but were unable to hold that momentum, and they again missed the playoffs. There were no new entrants but one small elevation.
As always, we present our top five, which saw no changes:
1. Honus Wagner
3. Paul Waner
4. Arky Vaughan
You can find the entire list here.
The only change was the returning Andrew McCutchen, who went up one spot to #11.
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RIP: Ole Anderson
Born Alan Rogowski, Anderson made his professional debut in the late 60s, and it did not take long for him to make his way to the Carolinas, where he adopted the Ole Anderson name as the kayfabe brother of Lars and Gene Anderson, the latter of whom he had a regular tag team with. They won multiple tag team titles, and Ole also established himself as a singles star. As Anderson gained knowledge, he took over as the booker in both Jim Crockett Promotions and Georgia Championship Wrestling. When Jack and Jerry Brisco sold their interest in GCW to Vince McMahon, Anderson created the Championship Wrestling from Georgia.
Ole's promotion would merge with JCP, and Anderson remained a fixture. He gained a new tag team partner (and kayfabe brother) in Arn Anderson, and they would later form the Four Horseman with Ric Flair and Tully Blanchard. Ole entered semi-retirement in 1987 when he was kicked out of the group.
He returned to reform the group with Flair, Arn, Barry Windham, and Sid Vicious, but was used as the mouthpiece for the group for a short time before he went backstage as a booker. He would leave the promotion for good in 1994.
Anderson was as intelligent as he was curmudgeonly and was one of the few who legitimately did not care whether you liked him. He was one of the better bookers of his era, and though not all of his ideas worked (Black Scorpion), he was undoubtedly creative.
We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to extend our condolences to the fans, friends, and family of Ole Anderson.
Our All-Time Top 50 Philadelphia Phillies have been revised to reflect the 2023 Season
Yes, we know that this is taking a while!
As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity. As such, we are very happy to present our post 2023 revision of our top 50 Philadelphia Phillies.
As for all of our top 50 players in baseball we look at the following:
1. Advanced Statistics.
2. Traditional statistics and how they finished in Major League Baseball.
3. Playoff accomplishments.
4. Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.
Last year, the Phillies had another great year, advancing to the NLCS. This good year by the team saw two new entrants in the Top 50.
As always, we present our top five, which saw no changes:
1. Mike Schmidt
4. Ed Delahanty
You can find the entire list here.
Pitcher, Aaron Nola, was unable to move up from #23, and remains in that spot.
The new entrants were Pitcher, Zack Wheeler and former MVP, Bryce Harper, who enter at #39 and #45 respectively.
We thank you for your continued support for our lists on Notinhalloffame.com.